Translations:Amino acid/4/en

Amino acids are formally named by the IUPAC-IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature in terms of the fictitious "neutral" structure shown in the illustration. For example, the systematic name of alanine is 2-aminopropanoic acid, based on the formula CH
3−CH(NH
2)−COOH. The Commission justified this approach as follows: